Wringer.



PATENTED AUG. 18, 1908. F. HARDY.

WRINGER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16, 1908.

FRANK HARDY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WRINGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 16, 1908.

Patented Aug. is, 1908.

Seria1 No. 411,065.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK HARDY, citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in l/Vringers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a wrin or particularly designed for use in wringing hot towels, and has for its object to provide means for supporting the wringer in position above an ordinary wash bowl, the means being adjustable to fit wash bowls of various sizes and shapes. Such bowls are sometimes made circular and sometimes oval in shape, and in order to support the wringer on either kind, a flexible band is provided which will fit either kind of bowl and support the wringer rolls in position above the same.

The device will be found particularly useful for barbers, who have to handle hot towels, so that the hands become more or less blistered and tender. By the present device this condition is relieved, as the water may be quickly and efiectively wrung from the towels without coming in contact with the hands.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation thereof, the wash bowl being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a face view of one of the standards which support the rolls.

Referring specifically to the drawings, the wringer rollers are indicated at 6, made of rubber and vulcanized on their shafts 6. These shafts are extended a considerable distance beyond the ends of the rollers, particularly atone end, as shown in the drawings. The shafts are mounted in boxes 7 which are connected by spacing rods 8 and provided with adjusting screws 9 and springs 10. The springs press the rollers together yieldingly, and the screws vary the pressure on the upper rollers, and may be adjusted as desired, in a manner well known and common in the construction of wringers of this kind. One of the shafts is provided with a crank 11, to turn the same.

The wringer rolls and frame above described are supported on a wash bowl or basin by means of a flexible band 12 which is split and lapped at one end and provided with a slot 13 which receives a set screw 14 connected to the other end of the band.

This allows the diameter of the band to be increased or diminished, and inasmuch as the band is flexible it may be bent to oval or other shapes, and when adjusted to the desired size, may be fixed at adjustment by the set screw 14. This band supports two brackets 10 which are attached to the band by set screws 24, the band being slotted as at 25 where the set screws pass through, so that the standards may be adjusted to various positions, according to the local conditions and the form of the bowl to which the device is applied. The standards 10 are ofiset inwardly, justabove the upper edge of the band 2, as indicated at 15, to engage under the edge of the top plate 26 of the bowl, then extend upwardly and are then ofiset outwardly as indicated at 16 to form shoulders which rest upon the top of the plate 26 on opposite sides of the bowl, and thence extend upwardly to support the roller shafts, which extend through openings in the standards provided for the purpose.

The shafts 6 are extended considerably beyond the ends of the rollers, in order that the supporting brackets may be moved along the same as the band is adjusted to fit bowls of different sizes. Thus to apply the wringer across the longer axis of an oval bowl, the brackets are slid out near the ends of the shafts, the supporting band 12 being enlarged or shaped to fit the bowl.

To apply the device to a bowl the band 12 is contracted until it will pass below the top plate, and it is then expanded to fit snugly against the side of the bowl at the upper edge thereof, directly under the top plate 26, in which position the band is then fixed by the set screw 14. The shoulders 15 and 16 of the brackets will, as shown, engage respectively under and over the edge of the top plate at the rim of the bowl, and the rolls Wlll thereby be supported in position over the bowl so that the water expressed from hot towels will drop into the bowl. Access to the bowl for ordinary toilet urposes may be had on either side of the ro ls, without removing the wringer, but if at any time it becomes necessary to remove the wringer, it can be quickly done by loosening the set screw 14.

I claim:

1. The combination with a wringer frame and rollers therein having extended shafts, of a su ort for the wringer having standards outs1 e of the frame with bearing holes through which the shafts pass, the support being adjustable to vary the distance betivelyto engage over and under the edge of tween the standards. the top plate of the bowl. 10

2. A support for a wringer, com rising a In testimony whereof I affix my signature, slotted eXpansible band adapted to t within in presence of two witnesses.

S a wash bowl, and standards fixed at their- FRANK HARDY.

lower ends to the band by set screws extend- Witnesses: 7 ing through the slots, the standards having 1 FLORENCE HENDERSON,

upper and lower shoulders adapted respee-' G, PATCEELOR, 

